George is not Judy's first husband. In 1959, she said "I do" to John M. Blume and spent her days as a self-described "lonely, isolated" housewife in suburban New Jersey. "I felt I didn't fit in with any of my neighbors," she told Bustle about her life at 28.

The couple welcomed two kids together: Randy and Lawrence. But by 1975, five years after she'd published her first novel, they divorced.

Judy admitted she regretted the union, saying, "I would never have gotten married at 21." She added, "I never really grew up. I did grown up things: I had babies, I had dinner parties, because that's what you were supposed to do."

Judy tried her hand at marriage a second time in 1976, this time tying the knot with Thomas A. Kitchens, a physicist. That union lasted only three years.

It wasn't until eight years later that the author would marry her forever love, George. They went on to welcome a daughter, Amanda.